A record-breaking 10,000...

LOSSES.

i'd like to share part of an abc.com article with you...

Philadelphia Phillies fans are counting down to an eagerly awaited, unprecedented benchmark. Their baseball team is just one game away from achieving a record that no other team in professional sports has ever reached.

T-shirts have been made, signs have been printed and now all the Phillies "Phans" can do is sit and wait to make their mark on sports history. If they get that 10,000th ... loss.

Americans are obsessed with sports and arguably more so with the statistic of sport than the game itself, and baseball, America's pastime, is the most saturated with numbers.
Everything from necessary statistics (how many times a player scores a run) to excessive statistics (the number of times a player has been hit by a pitch) has been carefully calculated. So it's not surprising that baseball fans across the country are well aware of the proximity of the 10,000 mark. But why are Phillies fans so eager to celebrate a less than flattering milestone?

Philadelphians Love to Hate Sports.

you gotta admire the city of love.

they booed santa claus.
they booed michael jack schmidt.
they booed donovan getting picked over ricky.

but they're making t-shirts for the 10,000th loss?

it's truly fascinating, isn't it. well, far be it from me to oppose what my city is doing... so... with that said... i'm cheering with the rest of them!

10,000 club losses. GO PHILS!!!!